It's kind of ridiculous how hard it is to find info on the topic. Many of the links floating about suffer from link rot and only tangentially related info, mostly focusing on FF. Short of unpacking a .jar theme file, where can I find resources on how to create a theme/what's in a theme?

Thanks in advance for your help. Apologies if this is answered somewhere that I just couldn't find.

x2a wrote:It's kind of ridiculous how hard it is to find info on the topic

Kind of ridiculous how long stuff like that takes to write as well.

x2a wrote: Short of unpacking a .jar theme

That is likely the easiest way to start. Extract it using Winrar and examine it. Then do the same with any existing T/Bird theme, paying particular attention to how the install.rdf and chrome.manifest are written.

Then install the following extensions - DOM Inspector, Element Inspector and any of the Restart extensions.

Initially write your theme in userChrome.css, which will allow you to concentrate on just the .css theme coding and not get complicated by any theme structure. Once done, that code would then get moved to a proper theme.jar.

To make a theme, everything revolves around the DOM Inspector - with just that I can read existing styling rules within .css files in omni.ja and elsewhere and also all images, etc.

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